Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead

Photography by Adrian Boot

“The Grateful Dead are in Egypt, playing three concerts before a thousand people a night at the Sound & Light Theatre in Giza, at the foot of the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx. It was unquestionably a novel notion when the Grateful Dead sought to begin diplomatic talks between the U.S. Government and Egyptian officials to permit the band to bring their acid trip to Cairo.”

Portrait of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead at the Pyramid of Djoser in Saqarah, Egypt, 1978.